The Last Shadow Puppets have announced a small number of tour dates in support of their forthcoming second album, including four in the UK, in March and April.

Alex Turner and Miles Kane will play the first date ahead of the release of the album Everything You’ve Come To Expect in Edinburgh, on March 26, and play London on the night of the album release. They’ll also be stopping in Liverpool and Sheffield.

Turner explained to our sister title, NME, the long wait between albums, saying that the band intended to release a trilogy and “wanted to write the second and third parts before we released the second”. Asked if fans would have to wait another eight years for the third installment, Turner added: “Well, I don’t know about that. There are lots of other things we have to factor in.”

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Speaking about the new music, Turner said of what to expect: “I think the last record ended up being just one thing. We talked about Scott Walker a lot and our record became perceived as a homage to that sound. This one, in my head, doesn’t wear its influences on its sleeve as much as the first one did. We were definitely listening to a bit of Isaac Hayes this time, but it was less of a big deal.”

Kane continued: “At that time [of the first album], all that stuff was new to us. We were discovering it for the first time. This time, it was just songs that we were buzzing off that we were inspired by.”

The full tour dates, including shows in American and elsewhere in Europe, are as follows: